Locust Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Locust
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Locust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 - 570
Rank change year-on-year - - +195
Permanent jobs citing Locust 8 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% - 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% - 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £40,000 - £50,250
25th Percentile £53,045 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £74,066 - £55,625
90th Percentile £74,344 - £56,750
UK median annual salary £70,079 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.80% +14.29% -47.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Locust falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,184 3,554 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.15% 9.89% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 1,996 3,062
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,325 £82,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Locust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Locust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Locust job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Locust
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Locust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Locust

Locust
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Locust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Locust in the UK excluding London

Locust
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Locust within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 2 £40,000 -
North of England - 2 £70,079 -
Midlands - 1 £70,542 -
North East - 1 £70,079 -
North West - 1 £70,079 -
Wales - 1 £70,079 -
West Midlands - 1 £70,542 -
Scotland - 1 £70,079 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Locust
UK

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Datadog
2 6 (75.00%) dbt
2 6 (75.00%) PaaS
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Gatling
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) TestRail
2 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
1 6 (75.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) BDD
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 6 (75.00%) FinOps
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Observability
2 6 (75.00%) OWASP
2 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (75.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform